///
/// Default value: 6.
pub minimum_depth: u32,
- /// Set to the amount of time we require our counterparty to wait to claim their money.
+ /// Set to the number of blocks we require our counterparty to wait to claim their money (ie
+ /// the number of blocks we have to punish our counterparty if they broadcast a revoked
+ /// transaction).
///
- /// It's one of the main parameter of our security model. We (or one of our watchtowers) MUST
- /// be online to check for peer having broadcast a revoked transaction to steal our funds
- /// at least once every our_to_self_delay blocks.
+ /// This is one of the main parameters of our security model. We (or one of our watchtowers) MUST
+ /// be online to check for revoked transactions on-chain at least once every our_to_self_delay
+ /// blocks (minus some margin to allow us enough time to broadcast and confirm a transaction,
+ /// possibly with time in between to RBF the spending transaction).
///
/// Meanwhile, asking for a too high delay, we bother peer to freeze funds for nothing in
/// case of an honest unilateral channel close, which implicitly decrease the economic value of
/// our channel.
///
- /// Default value: [`BREAKDOWN_TIMEOUT`] (currently 144), we enforce it as a minimum at channel
- /// opening so you can tweak config to ask for more security, not less.
+ /// Default value: [`BREAKDOWN_TIMEOUT`], we enforce it as a minimum at channel opening so you
+ /// can tweak config to ask for more security, not less.
pub our_to_self_delay: u16,
/// Set to the smallest value HTLC we will accept to process.
///